Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of twenty-two Chinese circus performers on two stages, including acrobats, plate spinners, and jugglers, with three standard-bearers holding lanterns in the background; small vignette portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at upper left.
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Image of a collage of three images of a hippopotamus with a costumed male animal trainer exhibited before circus spectators; portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at left.
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Visual Materials
Image of a collage of vignettes of burlesque, acrobatic, and minstrel acts and performers centered between two standing burlesque dancers in red costumes and including vignettes of the head-and-shoulders of fourteen female performers in formal dress, acrobats performing on bars, trapezes, and in balancing acts on balls and on a tightrope high wire, rows of men dancing with some in blackface, a group of female dancers with jump ropes, and a male minstrel troupe with musical instruments.
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Image of Japanese aerialists, acrobats, and jugglers, some wearing kimonos, performing acts, with a lower left corner vignette of two men fighting with swords captioned "Exercices de Guerriers," and a lower right vignette of two men fencing, captioned "Escrime Japonaise"; small portrait of P.T. Barnum at upper left and small portrait of J. A. Bailey at upper right; with a French stamp and obscured Barnum and Bailey stamp at upper left.
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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Barnum and Bailey Circus proprietor P.T. Barnum, as an older man, with his signature "Phineas Taylor Barnum" printed in the bottom margin.
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Image of a male horse trainer performing with thirteen horses in a circus ring; portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at left.
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